Among the items that caught my attention during "Las Vegas Jewellery Week" was the number of exhibits from producers or marketers of jewellery-making materials. This has been going for the past few years but there were three exhibitions in ...
Philips recently announced that it will build 19 "Community Light Centers" throughout Kenya by 2015. These Community Light Centers are areas of about 1000 square meters as large as a small football pitch, being lit up by using solar powered ...
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EXCLUSIVE – Supermarket giant Sainsbury’s has appointed Jane Skelton as its new head of packaging, replacing Stuart Lendrum who has been given a new role as the retailer’s head of sustainable and ethical sourcing ...
The National Security Agency can retain communications of U.S. citizens or residents potentially indefinitely if those communications are encrypted, according to a newly leaked secret government document. The document describes the ...
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More secret National Security Agency documents leaked by Edward Snowden to The Guardian suggest that the U.S. agency's British counterpart intercepts petabytes worth of communication data daily from fiber-optic cables. The operation ...
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) released official retail figures confirming strong sales performance from UK retailers in May. While the weather and general economic conditions continued to provide a challenge, the ONS numbers ...
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Organic micropollutants are omnipresent in water, and although they typically occur at very low concentrations, they can be transformed into complex mixtures of unknown composition. This study proposes a new approach for the tentative ...
Zepol Corporation, the leading trade intelligence company, reports that U.S. import shipment volume for May, measured in TEUs, increased by 3% compared to April, but decreased 2.2% compared to May of last year. The second-consecutive ...
LinkedIn's domain name was temporarily redirected to a third-party server Thursday, which resulted in a service outage and potentially put user accounts at risk of compromise. Uptime monitoring service Pingdom recorded that LinkedIn was ...
Mozilla has effectively postponed Firefox's controversial third-party cookie-blocking policy for several months. Yesterday, the open-source developer announced it was collaborating with a new initiative, dubbed "Cookie Clearinghouse," or ...
Is your car watching your every move? Can the cable company track your DVR habits? Those two privacy issues are bubbling up in Congress, where lawmakers this week filed bipartisan legislation that would give car owners control over data ...
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The U.S. Federal Trade Commission will launch an investigation of the business practices of so-called patent trolls in an effort to understand whether those companies are harming competition and consumers, the agency's chairwoman said. As ...
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Two U.S. lawmakers have introduced a bill that would prevent the Department of Justice from prosecuting people for violating terms of service for Web-based products, website notices or employment agreements under the Computer Fraud and ...
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The Aussie slumped to a fresh 33-month low today as the US central bank signalled plans to rein in its stimulus program before the end of the year and China's economy showed more signs of a slowdown. At 5pm AEST, the Aussie was trading at ...
Nutrition Dried fruits retain most of the nutritional value of fresh fruits, and so are included with fresh fruit in dietary recommendations by U.S. and world health agencies. The specific nutrient content of the different dried fruits ...
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